Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Fav 50 albums of 2021
It has been another long and difficult year for many of us but thankfully we have music to get us through. And I am also thankful for our Canadian artists that kept putting out albums [...]
DarBar’s 50 Favourite Albums of 2020
I know this has been said many times, but this was a very strange year indeed. It was a tough one for many of us and I very much appreciated having music as my companion [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s 50 Favourite Albums of 2019
The playlist this week is a list of my favourite albums of 2019. Most of the "Best of" lists came out in December but I am just getting around to it now. There are a [...]
Espanola by Espanola
Aaron Goldstein has spent the better part of a decade as pedal steel guitarist to some of Canada’s most revered songwriters (City and Colour, Cowboy Junkies, Daniel Romano, Kathleen Edwards, Bry Webb, Matt Mays, Elliott [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Long List
We are in the middle of Polaris Music Prize season and I am anxiously waiting to hear who makes it on to the Long List. The jurors votes are in and the official long list [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2016
Music from the year 2016 is what we are listening to this week. If you were listening to CBC R3 then, you will recognize many of the songs on the playlist. The R3 blog we [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2015
Music from the year 2015 is what we are listening to this week. Some of the tracks seem like it was just recently they dropped but these albums were released three to four years ago. [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2014
Music from the year 2014 is what we are listening to this week. Some of the tracks seem like it was just recently they dropped but these albums were released four years ago. If you [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2013
The year 2013 was not a very good one for me but luckily there was plenty of good music to get me through. Music has a way of uplifting and inspiring us to keep going [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Albums of 2012
The year 2012 was a good one for me and the tracks on the playlist this week has music from Canadian Indie albums released in 2012. Music has a way of transporting us to a [...]